Re: Networkhood file system

DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:21:00 +0100 (MET)


David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com> said:

[...]

> However, that's the easy bit - how would we handle authentication? It's
> not possible to just bring up a login window when the user tries to
> change into a remote directory. Furthermore, once we have managed to
> obtain a username an password for the remote system, what permissions do
> we give to other users than the one who logged in?

The tool ClearCase ( avaliable for Solaris , HP-UX .... )
offers per user ( or per process ) filesystems.
The file-system look differently for diffeent processes.

Multiple users can access the "same" files , but having different access right.

Just my $0.02

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